Miller Center Fellows, 2000 – 2001

JFK and Israel: The Kennedy Administration and the Origins of the U.S.–Israel Alliance

Warren Bass, Columbia University

Warren Bass is nonfiction book review editor of the Washington Post. He was a staffer on the 9/11 Commission and one of the writers and editors of its report. Bass is the author of Support Any Friend: Kennedy's Middle East and the Making of the U.S.-Israel Alliance (Oxford University Press, 2003). He has a Ph.D. in history and an M.A. in journalism from Columbia.

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From Fair Employment to Equal Opportunity and Beyond: Race, Liberalism, and the Politics of the New Deal Order, 1941–1971

Anthony S. Chen, University of California, Berkeley
Mentor: Thomas J. Sugrue, University of Pennsylvania

Anthony Chen is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In addition to holding appointments in the Department of Sociology and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, he is also a Faculty Associate in the Program in American Cultures. From 2005–2007, he held the position of Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California, San Francisco. Chen received his B.A. from Rice University (1994).

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Judges, Lawyers, and Experts: Law vs. Politics in Missouri vs. Jenkins

Joshua Dunn, University of Virginia
Mentor: R. Shep Melnick, Boston College

Joshua Dunn (Ph.D. University of Virginia, 2002) is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado–Colorado Springs, where he teaches courses on constitutional law and political theory. His research focuses on constitutional history and judicial policymaking and he has a forthcoming book, Complex Justice (University of North Carolina Press) on Missouri v. Jenkins. He also co-authored, with Martha Derthick, a quarterly article on law and education for the journal Education Next. Dunn received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 2002.

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Why Congress Delegates Decisions on the Budget: Institutional Origins and Consequences

Jasmine Farrier, University of Texas, Austin
Mentor: Louis Fisher of the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress

Jasmine Farrier is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Louisville. She received her doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin in 2000. In 2004, Farrier published her first book, Passing the Buck: Congress, Budgets, and the Deficit (University of Kentucky Press). Farrier's current research interests include separation of powers, congressional delegation of power, and constitutional law related to these issues. Continuing her interest in delegation of power, Farrier has begun a new book project tentatively called The Contemporary Imperial Presidency: A Story about Congress. Ferrier received her B.A. in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1992.

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The Weight of Their Votes: Southern Women and Politics in the 1920s

Lorraine Gates Schuyler, University of Virginia
Mentor: John Mark Hansen, University of Chicago

Lorraine Gates Schuyler is the Chief of Staff in the Office of the President at the University of Richmond. She received her doctorate from the University of Virginia in 2001. Her first book, The Weight of Their Votes: Southern Women and Political Leverage in the 1920s, was published in 2006 by the University of North Carolina Press. The Weight of Their Votes was named an Honor Book for non-fiction by the 2007 Library of Virginia Literary Awards. That year The Weight of Their Votes was also awarded the Julia Cherry Spruill Prize for the best book in southern women’s history. Schuyler has presented her work in numerous public and scholarly forums, including the Virginia Festival of the Book and the Clinton School of Public Service Distinguished Lecture Series. Schuyler received her B.A. in History from Yale University in 1993.

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Legislating the Solution to Pollution: Congress and the Development of Federal Water Pollution Control Policy in the United States, 1945-1975

Paul Milazzo, University of Virginia
Mentor: Hugh Davis Graham, Vanderbilt University

Paul Milazzo is Associate Professor of History at Ohio University. His areas of concentration include politics, political institutions, and federal policy, particularly after 1945. Professor Milazzo's recent research has focused on environmental policy making in the United States Congress. His publications include "U.S. Water Pollution," in Char Miller, et al., Water and the Environment Since 1945: Global Perspectives, and "The Environment," in Julian Zelizer's The American Congress: The Building of Democracy. His book, Unlikely Environmentalists: Congress and Clean Water, 1945-1972 was published by the University Press of Kansas in 2006. Milazzo received his A.B. from Amherst College (1991), and his M.A. (1994) and Ph.D. (2001) from the University of Virginia.

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Acres Fit and Unfit: Environmental Liberalism and the American State, 1925-1955

Sarah T. Phillips, Boston University
Mentor: Edmund P. Russell III, University of Virginia

Sarah Phillips is Assistant Professor in the History Department at Columbia University. She specializes in twentieth-century American political history and environmental history. She received her B.A. from Florida State (1996) and her Ph.D. from Boston University (2004). She is the author of This Land, This Nation: Conservation, Rural America, and the New Deal (Cambridge University Press 2007). Other publications include articles in Environmental History and Agricultural History, and book chapters on transatlantic agrarian history, the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt, and the conservation and environmental policy of state governors.

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Growing Pains: Political Economy and Place on the Northeast Corridor, 1950s-1970s

Peter Siskind, University of Pennsylvania
Mentor: Christopher S. Sellers, SUNY, Stonybrook

Peter Siskind is Assistant Professor of History at Arcadia University (Glenside, Pennsylvania), and is involved with Arcadia's International Studies Program. He received his B.A. from Dartmouth University, his M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, and his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania (2002). Siskind's recent publications include "Suburban Growth and Its Discontents: The Logic and Limits of Reform on the Postwar Northeast Corridor," in Kevin Kruse & Thomas Sugrue (eds.), The New Suburban History (University of Chicago Press, 2006) and "Shades of Black and Green: The Making of Racial and Environmental Liberalism in Nelson Rockefeller's New York" in The Journal of Urban History. Siskind co-teaches a course at the University of Pennsylvania with Governor Ed Rendell on contemporary campaigns and elections.

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Work, Citizenship, and Welfare: The Institutionalization of the Work Ethic in Work Relief Policies from the New Deal to the Present

Susan Schantz, Brandeis University
Mentor: Suzanne Mettler, Syracuse University